Archives: Projects

Jade Circle

  • Salvation Army Peacehaven Nursing Home

A new wing of a nursing home that demonstrates pioneering new services.

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Gym Tonic

  • PulseSync
  • Bishan Community Club
  • Fei Yue
  • Care Corner Singapore
  • Tzu Chi
  • Montfort Care
  • NTUC Health
  • TOUCH Community Services
  • Our Tampines Hub
  • Salvation Army Peacehaven Nursing Home
  • and many more

A chain of 30 senior-friendly gyms that tackles physical frailty via a structured strength training programme.

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Forget Us Not

  • Dementia Singapore
  • Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

Singapore’s first campaign to build a dementia-friendly community where hawkers, bus drivers, cashiers and others were trained to support Persons With Dementia.

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Quality of Death Index

  • Economist Intelligence Unit
  • Lien Centre for Palliative Care

A series of studies comparing the provision of palliative care across different countries. Published in 2010, 2015 and 2021.

Palliative Care

Safe but Soulless

  • Khoo Chwee Neo Foundation

A 130-page study released in Oct 2016 that examines best practices, concerns and policy choices for nursing home care in Singapore at a time when more homes are being built than ever before.

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ECHO Framework

  • KK Women's and Children's Hospital
  • Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities

Establishes a framework and common standards to optimise the potential of children with special needs by bringing therapy into daily experiences.

Maternal & Child Health

Anita’s Nursing Home Stay

  • Anita Kapoor
  • Salvation Army Peacehaven Nursing Home
  • Plug+Play Productions

A documentary that followed TV host and caregiver Anita Kapoor who volunteered to spend two weeks in a Singapore nursing home.

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Ingot PCC

  • PulseSync

Software-as-a-service to help community care providers deliver Person-Centred Care to their clients and families.

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Genki Kaki

  • Plug+Play Productions

This 10-part series of short films and articles highlights the rich diversity of services for seniors in Japan – which has the world’s oldest population – and what fast ageing Singapore can learn from them.

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Hack Our Play

  • St James' Church Kindergarten
  • Participate in Design

A co-creation initiative by preschool children, educators, parents and members of the community to design their very own play space.

Maternal & Child Health

After Cicely 50

  • Cicely Saunders Institute
  • Dying Matters
  • Hospice UK
  • Murray Hall Community Trust
  • Pushing Up Daisies
  • St Christopher's Hospice
  • St Joseph’s Hospice

A commemorative project that heralds 50 years since the founding of modern hospice movement in the UK led by Dame Cicely Saunders.

Palliative Care

Second Beginnings

A book on how unused and underused spaces in land-scarce Singapore can be repurposed to create thriving communities for seniors.

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Long Term Care Manpower Study

A research study that shows how long term care workers in Singapore are dogged by low pay and limited prospects, via comparison to care workers in four other fast-ageing Asia-Pacific economies – Japan, Hong Kong, Australia and South Korea.

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Care Where You Are

A 232-page research report which throws light on the state of formal centre-based and home-based care for seniors in Singapore, acknowledges strengths, showcases innovations, identifies unmet needs and suggests recommendations.

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Personally Speaking

  • Ngee Ann Polytechnic
  • Objectifs

A visual arts exhibition that took an unvarnished look at the grit, grace, challenges and rewards of caring for people with special needs, mental illness and frail or ill elderly.

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